Kim Roberts is a Bay Area editor and filmmaker. Most recently, she was editor for the award-winning ITVS documentaries Daughter from Danang and Daddy and Papa. She was the editor for Criminal (for Jon Else's Center for New Documentary), and for Great Wall Across the Yangtze (narrated by Martin Sheen for national PBS broadcast). She was also the Second Editor for the award-winning Long Night’s Journey Into Day.

Kim worked as an Associate Producer/Assistant Editor on The Gate of Heavenly Peace (a Frontline documentary which won a 1996 Peabody Award), and on a permanent video installation series on contemporary Native American issues for the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh (directed by Pat Ferrero). She received her Master's degree in Documentary Film and Video Production at Stanford University, where her short film Miriam Is Not Amused (1996) won a Student Academy Award, a Golden Gate Award, and a Silver Apple. Kim also writes and directs fiction films with her husband Eli Despres